Confessions of a Clairvoyant

Rose-Anne Vicari worked as a clairvoyant for two years under the pseudonym Enora. She practiced in an audiotel office and in private consultation. In her work, Confessions of a clairvoyant published by Editions Max Milo, she does not use wooden language. From the start, the tone is set. Without concessions, she dares to denounce the behind the scenes which is far from being as idyllic as the clairvoyant fools want us to believe.

Youcef SISSAOUI, president of INAD, agreed to write the afterword of this book, a reflection of the esoteric world and its excesses. He himself has been working for many years to establish a certain ethics within the divinatory arts, to obtain recognition of these professions from the State so that there can be control of their practice and so that deceived clients can obtain a conviction for the crooks. In the meantime, INAD has not hesitated for many years to denounce and combat the detestable practices of certain psychics, scams and abuses of all kinds. Finally, through a specialized legal service, Inad provides psychological and legal assistance to the victims of these charlatans.

Rose-Anne’s story is very simple. It is that of a woman who has become a clairvoyant somewhat in spite of herself, who takes up the profession in order to stabilize a precarious situation. And who could blame her in this particularly difficult time when the majority of citizens believe that solidarity is a state affair and not the daily work of each of us? Rose-Anne Vicari has always had gifts, and little by little, she exercises them privately through cartomancy. And then one day, she feels ready to try the adventure of making clairvoyance her profession. Weary, she quickly discovers the reality of the environment and everything that is going on in the world of clairvoyance. She will experience incredible situations, made of manipulation and lies. A nauseating pool of charlatans who shamelessly work in the world of divinatory arts. This world that Inad has been denouncing for more than 25 years. Rose-Anne Vicari quickly became one of the many puppets who work under the orders of lawless leaders, firms where anything goes with the sole aim of making a profit.

She realizes that to work in this environment, there is no need for qualifications and that the client has little possibility of verifying them. So the client confides in complete strangers. He delivers his doubts, his most intimate, most difficult, sometimes most unspeakable secrets to people who not only do not practice clairvoyance, but have no knowledge of psychology. It’s true that on audiotel all the cats are gray. Rose-Anne Vicari also discovers that you just have to know how to convince others. Convince him of his gifts, his power, his desire to help his neighbor. Proclaiming oneself a clairvoyant would therefore be within the reach of anyone. You just have to make it known and make people believe it. Anyone can become a clairvoyant, as long as they know how to express themselves well, with politeness, courtesy and above all, persuasion. Being clairvoyant often boils down to just knowing how to communicate with talent to enhance one’s image, gain the sympathy of the public, knowkeep the customer on the line for 30 minutes, brush him up on his beliefs, tell him anything and everything as long as it’s what he wants to hear.

Rose-Anne Vicari thus works 4 hours scattered throughout the day, weeks that are wobbly to say the least, works on weekends, certainly free of charge from home with a telephone line, all for 4.50 euros per hour. Who would work so much and be paid so little? But she works, sure of her gifts and the help she thinks she can bring to people. The calculation bases are as variable: customer traffic, calls processed, calls waiting, real time, average communication time, scheduled time, time generated, various ratios… In short, remuneration drowned in multiple criteria whose sole aim is to exploit a sincere person (the clairvoyant) to scam another sincere person (the client). Rose-Anne only receives 30% of the consultation fees. To achieve her goal of earning 500 euros per month, she works on the phone. She keeps customers coming. The least we can say is that all this looks like Stakhanovism taken to the extreme. Easy, in clairvoyance, there is no union and the majority of people working for audiotel firms are not employees. They have the status of independent worker which makes them workable and malleable at will. On both sides of the telephone line, people are cheated and exploited. Because, as in other economic sectors, small independents have given way to specialized companies. People who understood that clairvoyance represented a huge market, created clairvoyance offices, installed a telephone platform and enlisted real clairvoyants like people without the slightest knowledge of divinatory arts or psychology. These companies reap impressive profits with low investment. Their only ability is to exploit people in search of resources to cheat people in physical and psychological distress. Their only interest is the manipulation of each other in order to make profits. Their vision of clairvoyance corresponds in every way to that of a casino, a recognized source of dependence and suffering to the detriment of consumers and exploitation of their service providers. With one difference: the operation of casinos is recognized, regulated and very controlled.

By embarking professionally on clairvoyance, Rose-Anne wanted to be sincere. Through this experience, she learned a lot about the dark side of humankind. The public consultation is an immodest display of its most intimate problems. But at a time when lots of people are exposing their private lives on the internet, it should not be surprising that people in distress open up to anyone. Customers are willing to spend money to try to obtain miracle solutions, to hear that their wishes will come true, even if it means going broke. They are ready for anything and only want to hear the interpretations that suit them. We waver between relative wisdom and unreason, sometimes aggressiveness. Rose-Anne Vicari realizes that people consult for anything and everything, far from the search for love, financial worry, the hope of a brilliant career…. She deals with sadness, pain, grief every day. Clairvoyance is also a help to overcome difficult times. And that, the margoulins ofclairvoyance quickly understood this and did everything possible to meet this expectation.

Rose-Anne Vicari has therefore come to always use the same terms regardless of the case. It was from that moment that she understood that it was becoming unhealthy. She then feels the urge to throw everything away with a bang and free herself from the exploitation of her clients’ discomfort. The idea of ​​taking advantage of the psychological misery of others became unbearable for him. She’s had enough. From clairvoyance diverted from its goal, companies specializing in scams, distraught souls, exploitation of the precariousness of service providers: a mixture of genres long denounced by Inad, a mixture of genres which seemed less and less acceptable to it. The more she progressed in her observation of a clairvoyance misguided by the scam specialists, the more she distanced herself from these practices, from her involvement and from the role that she was forced to play. Ultimately, the more she practiced clairvoyance, the less comfortable she felt, the more angry she became with what was happening there. She preferred to stop and find herself in agreement with herself and her principles. Clairvoyance no longer appeared to him as the use of a gift to help his fellow citizens. She therefore left her illusions in this experience.

Rose-Anne Vicari’s testimony shows that consumers should be truly informed, within a legal framework, about the skills of psychics to reduce the risk of scams (there will always be some, like everywhere), have the possibility of carefully sorting through all the practitioners, and not let themselves be misled by strategies which are, ultimately, only marketing. It seems urgent today to regulate this profession, to establish its legal, social and ethical framework. Supervising it would certainly avoid deception and therefore the great suffering inflicted on all those who consult, but also the abusive exploitation of clairvoyants.

Here is a book that is, to say the least, edifying and unique in its kind which provides real reflection. Practicing clairvoyance would help your neighbor. Are we sure of this after reading this work? After reading it, it is certain that you will no longer look at the world of clairvoyance in the same way. But at least you will be informed.

MarieChristine